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How the Gospel Sets Us Free in Everyday Life
The message that the gospel has in terms of freedom for a man’s everyday life is really a counter-intuitive message.
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I’ve Heard It Said “Do What Makes You Happy”
It’s not wrong to want to be happy. Being happy is a good thing, and God is the creator of happiness. But we do have to think about where our happiness comes from.
How Can Parents Balance Being Both Firm and Approachable?
When I beat myself up for not getting it exactly right, I’m actually making matters worse. I’m not walking in freedom.
Dear Christian, If Heaven Is Real, Then Your Life Isn’t Meaningless
Many people struggle with finding meaning in normal life because most people don’t have super exciting, glamorous lives.
5 Practical Ways Pastors Can Care for Their Wives
Though a pastor expends much energy and effort on relationships in the church, he shouldn't neglect his most important at-home relationship.
Does America’s History Reveal a Common Consensus on Abortion?
Knowing abortion is murder is not something that is just a result of modern technology. It has been the common sense of people in America for centuries.
10 Bible Study Tools Every Christian Needs (Women of the Word Episode 8)
Jen Wilkin walks through different tools that can be used in the Bible study process and offers wisdom to help know when and how to best use them.
God Is at Work Worldwide—Even Here
God is not just working across the world. He's still working in the hearts of his people among us.
One Reason We Shouldn’t Get Rid of Youth Ministry
We need missionaries and evangelists out there reaching teenagers and sharing the gospel with them.
Learn How to Pursue Christian Unity from Two Men Who Didn’t
It would be really good if we lived in a world where Christians didn’t disagree with each other. But we do live in a world where Christians disagree.
Artist Spotlight: Lulie Wallace
Learn more about artist, Lulie Wallace, and her work on the ESV Single Column Journaling Bible, Artist Series.
Moms, You Have Permission to Feel Weary and Exhausted
Weary, discouraged moms need permission to feel okay about feeling weary and exhausted. Small children are exhausting. It's a hard season.
Human beings—as image-bearers of the God who made the world—are responsible to take care of the world and to use their time, talent, and treasure in everything they do for the Lord.
The First Step Toward Finding Joy in God Is to Desire It
The desire to rejoice in God is a species of joy in God. It’s a seed. You think of a seed and a tree. A seed is a real thing. It’s life, but it’s different from a tree.
We need to know that we are not in charge and we need to know how to submit to God as the one who is in charge.
How Can We Uphold Sola Scriptura as Well as Christian History?
This is a really crucial question. And to grasp this, let’s go back to the Reformation itself where sola scriptura was born.
Video: John Piper Reads "The Innkeeper"
John Piper reads his illustrated poem The Innkeeper.
2 Glorious Themes from These Overlooked Books of the Bible
In the context of 2 Peter and Jude, there’s a very strong emphasis on the reality of God judging those who are in rebellion against him. And that’s intended as comfort for his people.
How Motherhood Revealed My Desperate Need for God
Love is patient, love is kind, it keeps no record of wrongs, and I just know that I fall short—that I can’t conjure up that kind of love on my own.
A Blazing Light in a Dark World
The truth of Scripture upholds and sustains the church in every age and in every culture, regardless of what may be taking place outside her doors.
How Can Christians Claim Old Testament Promises as Their Own?
What we hope for tomorrow changes who we are today. If we truly believe that the pure in heart will see God, that’s going to influence what we look at and what we touch, because we want to see God.
When you see the message of grace unfolding in the Bible a pattern emerges. God is gracious to us, and then expects us to respond.
Why “Going Our Own Way” Is a Burden, Not a Freedom
We often hear the encouragement to go our own way or blaze our own trail. In a lot of ways, that sounds like freedom. But without Christ, it’s actually bondage.
Compromise on Marriage, Lose the Gospel
Who Created Marriage? We must not compromise on same-sex marriage. If we had invented marriage, we could reinvent it—there would be no problem with that. We could make it whatever we wanted it to be. …
Watch the Trailer for 'The Biggest Story: The Animated Short Film'
The Biggest Story connects the dots from the garden of Eden to Christ's death on the cross to the new heaven and new earth.
How to Fight the Power of Shame
To fight the power of shame, you have to do what is most counterintuitive.
Answering Kids’ Hardest Questions: What Is It That Makes Me, Me?
A question that a child might ask—maybe not directly but even indirectly and is certainly one that they are thinking about in their life—is, “What is it that makes me, me?”
Why Ordinary People Matter to God
One of the things that I love about the stories in the Bible is how many ordinary people you meet.
Lydia Brownback Discusses the Largely Undiscussed Topic of Loneliness
In this video, Justin Taylor sits down with Lydia Brownback to discuss her new book, Finding God in My Loneliness.
When You Are Tempted to Be ‘Supermom’
Whether from culture, family, or even ourselves, sometimes as moms we can feel these expectations that we’re supposed to be able to do everything and do everything well.